Hargreaves House
36 Georgina Matthews
80 Cecilia Rollinson.
Sweet Green house, where the eccentric Parson Folds
lived, was opposite Hick Hargreaves works.
Even after the first quarter of the 19th century not
much of the street was built along.
The old houses on the left from Great Moor St end
which were demolished in the late 1930s were probably built about the
end of the 18th century. They were interesting examples of a type of
domestic architecture of the period, and at the time many thought it
was a pity they could not be preserved.
The Railway came to the street in 1828, two years
before the Liverpool-Manchester railway was opened.It crossed the street
from Great moor St to the pits at Hulton, and was soon afterwards extended
to Leigh.
The firm Hick Hargreaves began on the site in 1833,
See Hick Hargreaves for history of
the firm
All the site has now been redeveloped more than once
gone making way for car parks and retail park, but the Sweet Green Tavern
stills remains there today.
1948
September 24th
A runaway railway wagon crashed through the wall at Crook St. goods
yard, Bolton, in the early hours of today, hurling about 20ft. of the
wall into the footpath and roadway. Luckily there were few people about
at the time, and no-one was injured. The accident took place near the
spot where, in December last year, a railway van crashed through the
hoardings into Crook St. after a goods train had got out of control
descending the gradient from Daubhill.
